Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:36:09 -0800, Joshua Uziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really wish Consumer Reports could evaluate stuff like this. They could save a lot of people a lot of time and money. Agreed. I got it 'cause it was the cheapest on the market... you get what you pay for... but again, it's fine if you limit it's responsibilities. :) Back in the 80's - mom and dad bought a Colt Vista because it had excellent Consumer Reports rating. That entire line of cars ended up being a lemon line with expensive repairs. Even consumer reports is sometimes way off. -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
I would suggest staying away from Netgear. I just replaced my WR614 today. Even with the latest firmware, my netgear router was never very stable and under intense use (i.e. a few hours of Bittorrent w/ Azureus) the netgear would essentially freeze, needed to power cut off manually to unfreeze it. I was going to grab a linksys, but Best Buy had a Belkin Wireless G onsale for $10 after rebates (69.99 w/ 2 30 dollar rebates). So far, it's working great and I find the utility for managing the software to be far superior to Netgear's. Mike Hartley wrote: Now that the native 802.11G SB2 is out, I am going to purchase a wireless DSL router to accomodate it. The router has to have PPPOE; firewall, DMZ, and port-forwarding capability; and at least one ethernet wired connection for my main PC. I am considering a Netgear WGR614NA, but am open to other options. Does anyone have any suggestions? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
Mike Hartley wrote: Now that the native 802.11G SB2 is out, I am going to purchase a wireless DSL router to accomodate it. The router has to have PPPOE; firewall, DMZ, and port-forwarding capability; and at least one ethernet wired connection for my main PC. I am considering a Netgear WGR614NA, but am open to other options. Does anyone have any suggestions? I bought a Linksys WAG54G for my Mum - I never got the wireless connection to work reliably. I've since replaced it with a Netgeat DG632 and a Linksys WRT54G (with Sveasoft firmware). Working reasonably well so far, all thought I have had some hangs requiring a reset of the DG632. R. -- http://robinbowes.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:44:10 -0800, Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The WRT54G is a big seller in most retail outlets (there's usually a big pallet of 'em at the local Fry's) and it is often heavily discounted and/or sold with rebates. You can usually tell a big sale on them is going on somewhere when suddenly a bunch NIB appear on eBay. When sellers can get them new cheaper than they go for on eBay, they will and turn around and sell them - so when eBay gets flooded with NIB check CompUSA, BestBuy, etc. The sellers often list before they have it in hand because if they don't, everyone else will and they'll get in late and lose money. http://www.edealinfo.com/DDCateg/ often has them listed in the networking section when they happen. -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
Chris Glushko wrote: I would suggest staying away from Netgear. I just replaced my WR614 today. Even with the latest firmware, my netgear router was never very stable and under intense use (i.e. a few hours of Bittorrent w/ Azureus) the netgear would essentially freeze, needed to power cut off manually to unfreeze it. I agree. Netgear's plain vanilla Ethernet hubs and switches have always worked great for me (I also like their simple metal cases) but their WR614 wireless access point was always a problem. It had poor coverage, and even at close range we had unacceptably high packet loss rates to our Power books. Firmware upgrades and appeals to customer support didn't help. So it's been sitting unused in a box ever since we got our first Linksys WRT54G. I really wish Consumer Reports could evaluate stuff like this. They could save a lot of people a lot of time and money. Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:57:26 -0800 (PST), Chris Glushko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest staying away from Netgear. I just replaced my WR614 today. Even with the latest firmware, my netgear router was never very stable and under intense use (i.e. a few hours of Bittorrent w/ Azureus) the netgear would essentially freeze, needed to power cut off manually to unfreeze it. Just for the record - I have the same issue with my Linksys wrt54g router. BitTorrent crashes it. I rarely uses BT - only to grab Linux iso's - it works perfectly otherwise. Supposedly the BT issue on the Linksys router can be solved by installing a third party firmware that gives you access to a shell and then using that shell to allow more connections. However - I've heard reports that it only is an issue on PPPoE and is a buggy PPPoE driver. I'm switching to cable modem soon anyway, so I will see if that fixes it - and if not, I'll just RMA it as some people with a Linksys don't seem to have the issue, and I'd rather have one that doesn't have the issue with stock firmware, then have to do weird stuff. My router is a v2.2 router - I don't know if it exists on the v3.0 routers. -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
Michael Peters wrote: Just for the record - I have the same issue with my Linksys wrt54g router. I should point out that I use only the wireless base station and 4-port Ethernet switch features on our WRT54Gs. I don't use the built-in DHCP or NAT/routing functions at all; that's all handled by a Soekris Engineering box running Linux. So I wouldn't have encountered any bugs in the WRT54G's routing or DHCP functions. Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
I have a SMC 2804WBR that I'm happy with. It has what you ask for, but 4 10/100 ports (autosensed). It also has VPN support (but haven't tried it yet) and a dynamic DNS client. Laments: it doesn't support simultaneous WEP/WPA (as I read in a review), and the logging is a little lame. jonathan Mike Hartley waxed wise and spake thus on 03/10/2005 04:37 AM: Now that the native 802.11G SB2 is out, I am going to purchase a wireless DSL router to accomodate it. The router has to have PPPOE; firewall, DMZ, and port-forwarding capability; and at least one ethernet wired connection for my main PC. I am considering a Netgear WGR614NA, but am open to other options. Does anyone have any suggestions? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
I have a Linksys WRT54G - no problems so far http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33scid=35prid=601 David Lister 17 Hill Avenue Grantham Lincs NG31 9BA 01476 564771 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?
Now that the native 802.11G SB2 is out, I am going to purchase a wireless DSL router to accomodate it. The router has to have PPPOE; firewall, DMZ, and port-forwarding capability; and at least one ethernet wired connection for my main PC. I am considering a Netgear WGR614NA, but am open to other options. Does anyone have any suggestions? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
